FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles

A phenomenal game with a dramatic story that'll sink its hooks deep into you. Ramza's development throughout the entire game is impressive. It's unfortunate that other characters don't get as much once they become optional battle members, but that's the nature of the way this genre. There should also be an option to have story battles scale up if you do late-game grinding like with Midlight's Deep. Barely got to see any mechanics for the final few fights. Still, I love this game and my entire time playing it. That's why I 100%'d it. Now all we need is Vagrant Story to finish out all the Matsuno Ivalice games.

a game that will go down in my list as a 10/10. a really thought out story thats just simplay a masterpiece and engaging all the way too the end. all of the voice acting brought everything to life, the combat and the amount of party building in this game was fun to even menu in and create combinations of jobs. truly a 10/10 game

Somehow I never wrote a review for this. I love this game quite a bit and of all Final Fantasy games I would put it in my top 3 and a strong contender for number one. FFT is one of the great kings of Strategy RPGs, not necessarily the peak in it's genre- but an exemplar for not just the genre but for all RPGs. The meme is that this is is the best Final Fantasy game, and it honestly kind of is. The story and soundtrack are both excellent and the game systems have depth and are rewarding. TIC updates the game with enhanced visuals and sound, as well as quality voice acting and a couple of balance updates to the original. This is the definitive way to experience FFT. The only bad things I can think to say is that the game balance can be all over the place and that certain game systems will appear obtuse to the more casual audience. The game is more difficult at the beginning than at the end, and has some very well known difficulty spikes that soft bricked save files for many people in the 90s. And of course the class balance also holds issues as well, some classes/characters are just better than others. But I think those are small gripes from someone who has played this 40-100ish hour long game over a dozen times now. TIC is the best release of this game to date, and only really doesn't compete on a gameplay level with balance mods that add all the PSP FFT's content to the original PSX release. So idk you read this much, buy it and play it. It's worth it. Job system. jingle jangle. Crunchy SRPG with a good story. Jingle Jangle. Play it.

better than the OG ! Work great on the steam DECK and PC

This appears to be a re-release of a much older game with someone updated graphics. Frankly it's just dumb. The constant marching in place of every figure is just so amateurish, the terrain makes targeting very difficult, resulting in my rotating around considerably to try and click on the location I really want to click on. Navigating the learn skills/abilities/jobs is annoying for one avatar, so having to do it for a dozen avatars is just incredibly tedious.

Excellent remaster! The voice acting is on par with the already great dialogue. The extra options are all good, with a fast forward key that is welcome and in no way deters from enjoying the game, it just eases the game along. I'm usually very touchy with visual overhauls but that's also done in good taste, excluding a very annoying filter you can't disable without mods, but it's no big deal and you can play with the original visuals anyhow. With the game itself, I have gripes. I don't think I can put them all in order here and, besides, it's probably all been said already. Some scrambled thoughts: -The game is very plot forward with very little room to breathe outside of it. Side quests come late and are scarce, so if you want to get some extra job levelling you'll have to fight flavourless map encounters. -There's some unfair fights/situations and you'll probably have to do a bit of grinding at some point or have to repeat some fights to prepare better. Grinding is less than ideal because of the previous mentioned issue. -The dialogue is great, as I've already said, but I feel like the story is not up there with it. It's a perfectly fine, interesting story, mind you, I just felt like it kept the dialogue from achieving its full potential. By the end of it there's just too many (excellently written) long conversations during fights repeating the same conflicts and themes. -The game offers you a lot of special characters that are usually better than whatever team of random party members you were progressing towards, making those obsolete. You could always ignore the special teammates, of course, but I feel the game is balanced around their use for the kind of smoother progression I personally find more enjoyable. It's still fun to put them to use. -The default camera is probably the worst setting for it. I always zoom out and change the view to be closer to overhead at the start of every fight but it never saves the setting. -I can't be arsed with the Bravery/Faith system. It just feels vestigial and makes special characters stick above the rest even more. -I appreciate the perma-death mechanic, it brings a tension to fights that I enjoy, but early on it felt a bit too harsh, though not very hard. Later on it's no big deal though I'd say it's undercooked as a mechanic. -There's decent enemy variety but the game doesn't take full advantage of it. This one is just a nitpick really, the fights have enough variety, but there's so many underused monsters, jobs, spells and even equipment. The lack of side content strikes again. That's all I care to write. There's a lot of positives I could easily mention but this is a positive review after all, so I just wanted to bring up some stuff I didn't gel with. It's a great game! I specially recommend it if you like this brand of tactics rpgs as much as I do.